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LOCATION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Mississippi Studios (3939 N Mississippi Ave., Portland, OR)
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:[ELECTRONIC YOUTH] It was a hell of a year for a kid from Sydney named Harley Streten. On New Year’s Day 2012, the artist now better-known as Flume was a 20-year-old bedroom beatmaker plucked from relative obscurity via a radio-station competition to play a support slot at a music festival. By year’s end, he had a No. 1 album, inked a deal with U.K. label Transgressive and had become one of the most talked-about names in Australian music. All the more remarkable for a baby-faced electronic producer in a country that typically prefers rocking out to grizzly blokes with guitars. His atmospheric R&B tracks are full of rich, dreamy soundscapes, but sample and tweak just enough catchy refrains to make them dance-floor- and radio-friendly.